Category: Love

Hello! It’s an early blog post today as I have the great pleasure of joining the Enjoy the Little Things in Life Design Team for their June video blog hop.

I’ve been doing a few videos lately as part of my Stamp In Confidence program (read about that here), but it’s still not natural for me to be organised enough to craft and video at the same time!!!

But life is all about challenges and extending ourselves, so I was delighted to say yes to a guest designer role with the Enjoy the Little Things DT.

The theme for this hop is 3D. The design team has come up with some lovely creations, complete with tutorial videos to help you make your own versions.

I’m so much of a card girl, and don’t often make boxes, bags or other 3D items.

So, for today’s project, I’m combining the two – a card that features an interactive 3D component.

One of the new bundles in the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue is the Love You to PIeces stamp set and coordinating Puzzle Pieces Thinlits. Such a fun way to create cards for big & little people!

I’ve created a double layer frame for the puzzle to sit in, so once the puzzle is together, it fits snugly onto the card front and looks like it’s part of the card.

But, the pieces can be taken out, mixed up and put back together just like a regular puzzle.

I’ve used the new embossing mat with the puzzle thinlit to create the background outline to guide the puzzle doer.

There’s so many pretty DSP patterns in the new catalogue that are perfect for this style of card. This design is Petal Promenade – beautiful photography patterns of flowers on the main side & marble on the reverse.

Watch my tutorial video here to show you the steps for making your own interactive puzzle card.

Welcome to the design team blog hop for the CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge.

Each Sunday the Crew create using the pages of the Stampin’ Up! catalogues as inspiration. We then open up the challenge to you and wait excitedly for you to share your projects with us on our Facebook group. Click here to visit the challenge page

This week’s theme is the Painted with Love pages from the Occasions catalogue -pages 18-21.

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You may like to CASE (copy and selectively edit or copy & share everything) the layout, colours, styling or other feature that catches your attention.

I loved this trio of tags….

I converted this concept to a card to create an anniversary card for Nanna & Grandad Papercraft. They celebrated 39 years of marriage this weekend!!!

Here’s a close up & break down of each panel.

I used slightly different materials to the catalogue – because I don’t own everything (sad, I know!). But that’s the beauty of CASEing – you make it fit with your supplies.

I loved this card from concept to a finished creation. The Stampin’ Up! concept artists have such beautiful designs in each catalogue and it’s always a pleasure to find the creative spark in the catalogue pages.

It’s week one of the winter school holidays here, so we are having fun between showers, rugging up against the cold and spending some quality time inside!

Winter weather is always a great excuse to put on a movie and spend some time at the craft table as well – so there’s been some of that too!!!

I’ve been busy over the last week putting together not one, but four cards for today’s Stamp Review Crew blog hop featuring the Coffee Cafe stamp set, together with the coordinating Coffee Cups Framelits dies and wonderful Coffee Break DSP. This suite is great for all occasions!

Prepare to be dazzled as you zoom around the world on a coffee filled adventure with some surprises along the way!

The hop goes around in a circle, so you may have already visited the gorgeous Twila Davis in the US! The link at the end of this post continues the hop for you – to Bronwyn Eastley, a lovely demonstrator in Tasmania who I love to be able to call a friend!

I initially had a difficult time brewing ideas for this hop (pun intended!) but once I got started, they just flowed!

I’ve kept with the suite colours & overall theme for these designs – I just love the DSP!!!

Here’s all the cards in more detail – warning, lots of photos to come!!!

The first card is a lovely generic sentiment card that would be perfect for any number of occasions.

It really highlights how awesome the DSP is!

And features one of the great sentiments in the stamp set.

I love that it fits in the belly band – which makes it easy to add!

Did you spy those cute little cups on either side of the main coffee image? They are fussy cut from the DSP – endless possibilities!

The next card has a hard-hitting statement… because you know if someone loves you more than their coffee, it’s got to be a lot!

The “I Love You” is from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set – the font is a lovely compatible match for the “coffee” wording which I’ve stolen from the large sentiment in this stamp set.

I tried a few different lettering options for the ‘more than’ text and in the end I decided that my handwriting emulated when the cafe writes your name on the takeaway cup.

During my collating ideas process, I tried to come up with a card that used the name writing on the coffee cup idea in a funny way – you know, like “Stephen with a ph”… I’m still working on it!

Card #3 is my favourite… I think!

I’ve seen this idea on coffee mugs and thought it went well with the ‘life happens’ sentiment.

We all have that friend who {does not} function until they’ve had their first coffee of the day?!?! Maybe you live with one?

And the final card is a cello bag shaker card – because those little coffee beans are too cute!!!

I love a good pun – so the ‘thanks a latte’ sentiment tickles my fancy!

That completes my set of Coffee Cafe cards for today’s blog post.

For more inspiration, click the next button to visit the amazing Bronwyn Eastley in Tasmania – I know she has something wonderful to show you the possibilities this set holds!

As I was running through my Daisy Delight rehearsal the day before my OnStage presentation back in April, I realised I couldn’t find one of the cards I’d made!

Not to panic, I had lots of other ideas to show everyone, but I did wonder what had happened to the card!

Well, fast forward to this week and I found the missing card (ironically while I was looking for something else I thought I’d lost… but actually hadn’t… oh dear!)

I was so excited to see it again – and it’s too cute not to share!

Here it is…

This yellow & navy combination has reminded me how beautiful & bright those colours are together!

There’s a gorgeous page in the Delight Daisy DSP full of yellow flowers on a blue background!!!

Here’s another view….

Subbing out a letter for an image is a great way to add creativity to a word.

The ‘you’ is from the Daisy Delight stamp set. Because it’s photopolymer, I have actually cut the ‘thank you’ into two parts. This means I can use them separately, or line them one of top of each other. If I want the whole word, it just pieces back together on the block!

Are you a stamp cutter??? Or does that idea just send you into a tail spin?

Cutting or no cutting, these stamps will be available on Thurs when the Annual Catalogue launches!

I’m excited to start with the ESAD Last Chance Sale-A-Bration 2017 Blog Hop.

Prepared to be amazed as the demonstrators on this hop show you great ideas on how to get the most out of your Sale-A-Bration products.

Or, tempted to buy a bit more of your wishlist, just so you can earn another choice!

There’s 13 available – 10 in the first release and 3 in the second release.

I love so many of the products, but I’ve definitely been dazzled by the 6×6″ assorted glimmer paper.

How could I not? It’s in my favourite colours!!!

Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron & Sweet Sugarplum!

You get 4 sheets of each colour- and although glimmer is traditionally used sparingly, when it’s this good, you’ve got to splash it about!

So I’ve used it to create 3 repetitive shape patterns.

Succulent flowers for the Mint Macaron

Bright & bold circles for the Bermuda Bay

And pretty hearts for the Sweet Sugarplum.

I’ve used the glimmer colours to stamp matching sentiments for each card and some ribbon to finish it off!

Wouldn’t it be amazing if these colours appeared in the next Stampin’ Up! catalogue?

A girl can always hope!

The next stop on this inspiring hop is Courtenay Heuston. You’re going to love what she’s created!

Thanks for joining us. If you have time to leave a comment, please do! Some of the participants on this hop are seasoned hoppers. But for some, this is the first time they’ve participated in a blog hop, or the ESAD blog hops are their big moment! Give them some love to let you know that you’ve appreciated their projects!

If there are any broken links, check on the list below to continue your journey.

An exciting Stamp Review Crew today as we hop around the world showcasing the Lift Me Up stamp set – and coordinating thinlits!

You may have started this hop with Bronwyn Eastley in Tasmania, Australia and travelled this way to the other side of the country (Bunbury, Western Australia) – or this part of the world might be your first point.

Stay down under with us for a while before taking off back to the US for more great projects.

Lots of the cards I’ve made with this bundle have been created using the colour palette from the Carried Away DSP – bright & fun.

I wanted to try some soft & pretty cards for today’s hope projects.

The starting point for each of these cards was a different shape from the Stitched Shapes Framelits – one circle, one oval & one square.

I watercoloured each piece with a different favourite subtle colour & then decorated with stamped & white heat embossed shapes from the stamp set in the same colour to create three different monochromatic cards.

Blushing Bride Love…

Mint Macaron Note…

So Saffron Birthday…

Cards don’t have to be complicated to be lovely – sometimes clean & simple is best!

Next up on the hop is the gorgeous Rochelle Blok – one of many Artisans on the crew.

There’s certainly a lot of talent in this group, so enjoy as you hop around the world and collect ideas for how you might use your Lift Me Up bundle.

If you get lost anywhere along the hop due to a broken link, head back to the Stamp Review Crew blog to get you on track again!